It Takes a Village - Symposium about artists, motherhood and community by AtelierStroud

It Takes a Village - Symposium about artists, motherhood and community
A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM at ATELIER, STROUD
presented by WAAS (http://thewaas.org/)
Sunday 23 April 2017 (10am-5pm)
part of sva Resound Radio (http://www.sitefestival.org.uk/resoundradio2017)

Sharon Louden in an interview with Hyperallergic said ‘it takes a village for an artist to really sustain their creative practice’. This resonates with the perhaps more widely recognised notion that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’.

At this symposium we will present, explore and discuss a range of models for sustaining mother-artists and explore how ‘the village’ can facilitate the role of the woman who seeks to sustain both an art career and children.

We hope that non-mothers, and non-artists, will benefit from exploring these models as well as artist-mothers, and we will draw on models from education, culture, and experimental arts practices.

Contains tracks

• Session 1 The Mother House (Dyana Gravina and Amy Dignam, Procreate Project) by AtelierStroud
• Session 2 Lenka Clayton Artist Residency In Motherhood (Sarah Dixon and Sharon Bennett) by AtelierStroud
• Session 3 Models For Education (Carol Mathews) by AtelierStroud
• Session 4 Who Is The Village? (Martin Jakes and Nick Weir) by AtelierStroud
• Session 5 Art World (Sarah Bowden, Jo Leahy and Grace Davies) by AtelierStroud